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Show TEACIIER PLAN 4 SEEKS RURAL SCHOOL nELP A system of interneship as a means to balance a discrepancy in the financial returns to teachers, had been set down recently by Connecticut as a pattern for other ' states of the nation in meeting current shortages in teachers, j Stressing the point that the teacher shortage in some rural districts could be blamed on the comparatively low salaries paid teachers in the more remote rural districts, the state decided to begin be-gin the interneship plan in September. Sep-tember. The systems calls for assignment as-signment to the rural schools of students in their senior year at the teachers' colleges. Tee state's education department had also announced a possible increase in-crease in the issuance of emergency emerg-ency certificates similar to those issued during the war to persons who did not meet all qualifications normally required in the state. In line with the interneship plan the state also had decided to re-cruitcandidates re-cruitcandidates for the teachers' colleges from the high schools during the year, with stress in the campaign on the point that pupils who start in the colleges this fall are to be virtually assured of jobs at the end of their course. House Lack Cited ... A state education official who had announced the plan reported that the better pay offered in some rural districts had left others oth-ers without candidates. Shortage of housing in many towns, he said, is another factor contributing to the current shortage in teachers. The state board is encouraging private families in some communities communi-ties to make homes available to teachers. , |
